Following my last comment, here is an example of God's peace at work as a way of knowing His voice.
(This story is slightly abbreviated)
The Saturday before Christmas, I was driving home through flood water. I had been this way several times before, so had no real concern. The water was about 12" deep and still below the floor level. I was crawling slowly through the water when suddenly the engine stopped dead with a lurch. I instantly knew with dread what had happened. It was a diesel engine and somehow it had sucked water into the air intake, which is almost certain death to a diesel. Water ingestion causes a hydraulic lock on the pistons probably writing off the engine and the car. For the briefest of moments I was angry with myself for being stupid, and then I turned straight to the Lord and an overwhelming peace descended in my heart, and I knew that God already had it sorted. All I had to do was abide in that peace and He would deliver salvation in his way.
I have to add here that I am currently in fairly dire circumstances. (And this is NOT a begging letter! LOL) In the course of obeying God, my wife and I are in the wilderness and I have lost everything, business, home, and reputation, so the idea of replacing the car was financially impossible. Nevertheless, for most of my Christian life since the 70s I have known that the peace of God always trumps all circumstances no matter what.
So I was able to enjoy the presence of the Lord whilst stuck in the middle of a flooded road in a now deceased car. Thankfully a friendly 4x4 driver gave me a tow home.
I was ok for transport on a temporary basis because I was looking after a friend's car which had to be returned at the end of January. Unfortunately, I also had an enormous amount of income tax paperwork related to business which I knew would take most of the month up to the deadline of the 31st of January. I desperately hoped that whilst I still had the use of another car, I might have some time to fix my car. Unfortunately, my tax accounts proved very burdensome, yet every time my mind turned to the car problem, the peace of God descended. And always remember, God's peace has no connection with our understanding! Provided He is always on the throne of our heart, we can have amazing peace even when the circumstances are awful.
I finally got my tax return dispatched the evening before the deadline, also the evening before I had to drive 500 miles to return my friend's car. There was therefore no possibility of even looking at my car, never mind fixing it. Praise God for his peace, I knew God has it sorted some way.
The next morning as I was about to start the drive north, my phone rang. It was a prophetic brother I have known for years, but lives a long way from me, so we talk only occasionally.
"How are things going", he asked.
"Just a bit fraught, but otherwise fine", was my reply.
His very next words. "Do you want my car?"
I was shocked, "what do you mean?"
"Do you want my car?"
"I'm sorry, but what do you mean"
"DO. YOU. WANT. MY. CAR?" He shouted down the phone.
By this time I was laughing and laughing, and my friend was trying to get sense from me. It took me a while to explain that my car had expired and that day was the final day of my loan car.
God's peace can answer many more things than mere words alone. Throughout the 6 weeks of my car trouble, all I had known was the peace that passes all understanding. I had thought that God would perhaps show me how to take the engine apart and fix it, but God had other things up his sleeve.
After collecting my new car, I finally got around to checking mine. There was a big hole in an air intake duct which stupidly was fixed below the engine level. As I had driven through the flood, it had hoovered up enough water to seize up the engine. I had to scrap it.
My new car was the same year and model as the one I broke, but in much better condition!
